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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of London Borough of Havering. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Havering website
865 approved · 3,850 refused · 1,114 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Aug 2000 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
34 Thameshill Avenue Romford RM5 3BU
Received 16 Jul 202623 Cedar Gardens UPMINSTER RM14 3DL
Received 31 Jul 201770 Hacton Drive Hornchurch RM12 6DP
Received 30 May 20195 Mygrove Gardens Rainham RM13 9QT
Received 7 Jul 2025102 ROTHBURY AVENUE RAINHAM RM13 9HZ
Received 22 Jun 20172 Beverley Gardens Hornchurch RM11 3PA
Received 5 May 2023Beam Reach 5 Rainham
Received 23 Feb 201622 Ravenscourt Drive Hornchurch RM12 6HL
Received 8 Sept 201552 Geoffrey Avenue Harold Park Romford RM3 0YH
Received 10 Jul 201565 Grove Park Road Rainham RM13 7DA
Received 3 Jun 201920 Hamilton Avenue ROMFORD RM1 4RP
Received 16 Mar 20183 Helmsdale Road Romford RM1 4DW
Received 23 Oct 20184 Park Avenue Upminster RM14 1JS
Received 19 Nov 2025St Edwards Court London Road Romford RM7 9QD
Received 20 Jul 201860 Ernest Road Hornchurch RM11 3JW
Received 8 Jun 201616 Ayr Way Romford RM1 4UB
Received 26 Jan 2026Chapmans Farm Hall Lane Upminster RM14 1UA
Received 7 Nov 201814 Brook Road Romford RM2 5QT
Received 3 Jul 202315 Crossways Romford RM2 6AA
Received 28 Apr 201925 Erith Crescent Collier Row RM5 3JJ
Received 21 Apr 2016Rainham Landfill Site Coldharbour Lane Off Ferry Lane Rainham
Received 1 Apr 2011Essex House, Commercial Unit 1 Harold Court Road Romford RM3 0YU
Received 1 Nov 201833 Prospect Road Hornchurch RM11 3TY
Received 16 Aug 2024Saint Francis Hospice The Hall Broxhill Road, Havering-atte-Bower Romford, Essex RM4 1QH
Received 19 Aug 2016Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for London Borough of Havering, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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